Christian democracy could help what ails American politics
Last week, I called attention to Bishop Robert McElroy’s Bernardin lecture at Loyola University Chicago. I noted that I disagreed with the bishop’s diagnosis of what ails our body politic, …
Month: April 2018
Evangelicals Have Displaced Catholics As the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Base
Looking at an article in the Washington Post about the frenetic activity in many states since 2010 aimed at enacting abortion restrictions, some in order to set up a legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, the American Prospect’s …
Why Orthodox Christian Nations Remain Stuck
Eastern Orthodox Christianity has done more to shape certain ex-Communist countries than communism. It also, some say, made their people relatively unhappy and anti-capitalist. This theory got a lot of play in …
Christians should not be second-class citizens, cardinal tells Saudi Arabia
A senior Vatican official who last week made a historic visit to Saudi Arabia says he told authorities in the kingdom, where non-Muslim worship is banned, that Christians cannot be …
Black Americans are more likely than overall public to be Christian, Protestant
Unlike Americans of European descent, most black Americans trace their ancestry to areas of Africa that, centuries ago, were not primarily part of the Christian world. Yet, today, a larger …
Is climate change a part of god’s plan? Evangelicals remain divided
“If I say that I respect God, that I love God, and God has given us this incredible life-giving planet, then if I strip every resource at the expense of …
Why Religious “Prophets” Can’t Be Trusted
The last time we heard from YouTuber TheraminTrees, he was talking about how religions were created and what they told us about the creators. Now, in the second video in …
Remembering the things that give life
t’s hard to picture anything in our lives not influenced by memory. Even meeting a complete stranger inevitably triggers scores of stored-up mental images of other people and experiences. Without …
Activist priest John Dear tours with new book on resisting climate change
Just prior to the December 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris, Pope Francis warned a group of reporters that the world is on the brink of committing “suicide.” Less than a year …
‘Catholic majority possible’ in Northern Ireland by 2021
Dr Paul Nolan, who specialises in monitoring the peace process and social trends, told BBC News NI that there could be more Catholics than Protestants in Northern Ireland by the …